European Commission targets GAFA (08 September 2015) by OIP

Gunter Oettinger, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society should announce, by the 24 September, the instigation of a public consultation on online platforms (See Euractiv article).

The consultation should notably deal with the free flow of data and the cloud computing.

Euractiv reminds that the Commission is particularly concerned with the Internet giants’ potential to massively withhold data, especially since they have become so influent that their activities shape all almost every economic sector.